Devin Ebanks was not here Saturday afternoon in the semifinals rounds of the is8/Nike Spring Classic, but many of the best high school basketball players in New York, New Jersey, and Connecticut were.

The Shooting Stars (Ebanks' team) knocked off the New York Elite 104-85 and the Playaz Seniors drilled the New York Panthers 99-74 to set up a rematch of the fall event here at noon on Sunday.

Ebanks, the 6-foot-9, 210 pounder deciding among WVU, Memphis, Rutgers and Texas, was in the Connecticut suburbs--as his team pounded the floor at the Intermediate School 8 bandbox--graduating from St. Thomas More.